5th - 7th Grade Activities : Page 13

Skip store-bought jewelry and show your stylish kid how to make her own beaded bracelets.

Get your kindergartener involved in the kitchen by making healthy cupcakes loaded with veggies and protein in this fun cooking activity.

Examine which metal conducts more heat by boiling water in 3 pans made of aluminum, copper, and stainless steel.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. In this activity, your child can put pick up a paintbrush and create a self-portrait inspired by this renowned artist.

Kids think of 25 ways to live healthier, more active lives and come up with a plan to put into action in this middle school heath activity.

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Help your fifth grader honor Black History month and the musical genre of jazz by crafting decorative music notes embellished with jazz musical instruments.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Does your middle school teenager have good reflexes? Gauge his reaction time in this science and math activity that requires only a yardstick and a friend.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

Science fair project that examines the behavior of water and gravel in creek beds and the formation of sedimentary rocks.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

Discover whether a metal will expand under hot water.

This science experiment tests if dog saliva can really help heal wounds.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.